//105// NZ Open / Snowstock / Ready /

New Zealand Open July 29 - August 2, 2008

Snow Park NZ, Cardrona Valley, Wanaka, New Zealand
Part II: Quaterpipe and Halfpipe

Enough of this talking… We want to see The New Zealand Open Quaterpipe Invistational. Welcome to shralp! episode 105 from August 24th.

Highest Air went to Daisuke Murakami.
Brennan Swanson became 1st Overall Men

Next day was pipe day. A 5 Star TTR event and good for a lot of points
Jamie Anderson plowed through the fog and became first. She is currently in the lead of the TTR womens ranking
Finish rider Markus Malin became second and man was he tired. Look at him:
Kazuhiro Kokubo became first with this run, which listed him number 8 in the TTR ranking.

Guy Alty Burton Snowboards NZ
Daisuke Murakami Highest Air
Brennan Swanson 1st overall
Jamie Anderson 1st women’s pipe
Markus Malin 2nd men’s pipe
Kazuhiro Kokubo 1st men’s pipe

Music: Bloc Party Luno (music.podshow.com)

Billabong Snowstock August 15th - 19th

Snow Park NZ, Cardrona Valley, Wanaka, New Zealand
Part I: Quaterpipe

We stay in Wanaka, New Zealand for this short clip of the Quarter Pipe Throw Down part of the Billabong Snowstock. Antti Autti nailed a 1080 to win best trick in the open men’s and James Hamilton (NZE) won highest air.
More of the Snowstock in the next episode of shralp!

Antti Autti Best Trick
James Hamilton Highest Air

Music: Casual Projects (myspace.com/casualprojects)

DVD Teaser and Premiere / Ready

Absinthe Film

You should get ready for this. Absinth’s new film is called “Ready” and from what I see here it looks like a big film. And you get a chance to see it on theater big screen, too. Absinth Films will tour the US starting next Saturday, August 30th in Salt Lake City. The Tour, called “Sphere of Influence”, will then move on and screen the film in Vancouver, Encinitas, Seatle, Nevada City, Spokane, Portland, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Sacramento and many more theaters all across the West Coast. You can find the schedule at sphereofinfluencetour.com.

The European Tour will start in mid September. We will keep you posted.

Watching shralp! contest

Last episode we asked you to post some pictures of you watching shralp!. We got some but we really think you can do better. Remember we are giving away t-shirts. Go to shralp.ning.com uploady you pic and tag it “viewer”.

That’s It for this episode. All mentioned links can be found on shralp.com. Next episode will be available on September 7th.